For second day in a row, civilians, cops team up to catch alleged iPhone thief in Copley Square

Boston Police report arresting a Weymouth man on charges he tried and failed to get away with a woman's iPhone Thursday afternoon.

The woman was walking on Arlington Street near the Public Garden around 1:30 when Christopher A. Chubbuck, 28, grabbed her phone and ran toward Boylston. The woman refused to just stand there and began chasing him, joined at Berkeley and Boylston by a bystander, who lost him on Clarendon - where a detail officer heard a radio report and saw the guy run into 140 Clarendon, just south of Stuart, from which arriving police got him out.

Police say officers were unable to find the woman's iPhone - until they arrived with Chubbuck at District D-4 for booking - when they found it in the cruiser after he got out.

Wednesday:
Posse of concerned citizens rounds up alleged iPhone thief in Back Bay

Innocent, etc.